person
Sofya Alexandrovna Davydova
Sofya Alexandrovna
also: Софья Александровна Давыдова, Sofya Alexandrovna Davydova
A businesslike, kind, and modest woman whom Chekhov met in Voronezh province during the famine-relief effort and to whom he gave Yevgraf Petrovich Yegorov's address, judging she could do a great deal to help. Not otherwise identified in the corpus; distinct from the actor and from other unrelated bearers of the Davydov surname.
Reading notes
- To Ye. P. Yegorov, 6 February 1892. Voronezh. §5 Sofya Alexandrovna Davydova
A woman Chekhov met during his Voronezh famine-relief travels, to whom he gave Yegorov's address on the strength of her being businesslike, kind, and capable -- a small act of networking the relief effort's local contacts together.